Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine declared independence on August 24. The map below shows when ... the seventh-largest in Europe. The country comprises 24 regions ...

The past 100 years have seen another world war and the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, but much of present-day Europe is based ... right from 1914 to see 1914 map and to the left from 2014 ...

and underscored that Ukraine could not be found on this map. "It was the Soviet government that created the Soviet Ukraine, that is a well-known fact. And there was no Ukraine in human history ...